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+function __fish_complete_job_pids --description "Print a list of job PIDs and their commands"
+    if set -l jobpids (jobs -p)
+        # when run at the commandline, the first line of output is a header, but
+        # that doesn't seem to be printed when you run jobs in a subshell
+
+        # then we can use the jobs command again to get the corresponding
+        # command to provide as a description for each job PID
+        for jobpid in $jobpids
+            set -l cmd (jobs -c $jobpid)
+            printf "%s\tJob: %s\n" $jobpid $cmd
+        end
+    end
+end